Mosaburo Suzuki

Mosaburo Suzuki (7 February 1893-7 May 1970) was the founder of the leftist Nihon Musanto party of Japan.

Biography
Mosaburo Suzuki was born on 7 February 1893 in Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, Japan to an impoverished family descended from the samurai of the Tokugawa Shogunate (hatamoto). He graduated Waseda University with a degree in politics and economics in 1915, and he was sent to Siberia as a correspondent in 1918, witnessing the Imperial Japanese Army's plot to intervene in the Russian Civil War. Suzuki opposed Japan's imperialistic war efforts, and memories of his impoverished childhood ad his time spent in the Soviet Union led to him becoming a socialist. In 1937, he founded the Nihon Musanto (Japan Proletarian Party) party, and he joined the Social Democratic Party of Japan after the end of World War II. He was named chairman of the party, but he resigned in 1960 when right-wing members of the SDPJ formed the Democratic Socialist Party of Japan in opposition of Suzuki's party. He died in 1970.